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16 lines
761 B
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The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the
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time of a computer client or server to another server or
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reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver
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or modem. It provides accuracies typically within a mil-
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lisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on
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WANs relative to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via a
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Global Positioning Service (GPS) receiver, for example. Typ-
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ical NTP configurations utilize multiple redundant servers
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and diverse network paths in order to achieve high accuracy
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and reliability. Some configurations include cryptographic
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authentication to prevent accidental or malicious protocol
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attacks and some provide automatic server discovery using IP
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multicast.
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WWW: ${HOMEPAGE}
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